What You May Not Know About A Scumbag Named Karl Marx
Oh, that wonderful Karl Marx! So many American socialists look up him to as author of The Communist Manifesto that inspired Lenin to kill so many fellow Russians for being in the way of his climb to dictatorial power.
As a young man Marx was a drunkard and literally a man without a country because nobody wanted the troublemaker around.
Once Mark had to stay at home a while because his wife pawned the only pants he had.
Marx died broke. Only 11 people showed up at his funeral.
In the comments section of the linked article, me dino read that Marx bought guns for a revolution that never happened instead of food and medicine for a sick child who later died, that "the guy was absolute scum" and that so may who look up to his oh so famous butt know so very little about him.
After reading that, me dino looked up Karl Marx elsewhere and noted that only three of his seven offspring survived their childhood to reach adulthood.
Me dino knows the mortality rate for kids was higher back then but I do believe four out of seven kids taking a dirt nap is pushing it a bit much.
As a young man Marx was a drunkard and literally a man without a country because nobody wanted the troublemaker around.
Once Mark had to stay at home a while because his wife pawned the only pants he had.
Marx died broke. Only 11 people showed up at his funeral.
In the comments section of the linked article, me dino read that Marx bought guns for a revolution that never happened instead of food and medicine for a sick child who later died, that "the guy was absolute scum" and that so may who look up to his oh so famous butt know so very little about him.
After reading that, me dino looked up Karl Marx elsewhere and noted that only three of his seven offspring survived their childhood to reach adulthood.
Me dino knows the mortality rate for kids was higher back then but I do believe four out of seven kids taking a dirt nap is pushing it a bit much.
I studied Marx intently in university, as I had already read Rand and more importantly Mises before even starting my studies. I knew he was the primary enemy of rational, Capitalist Economics.
Most of the facts were interesting but not surprising. I knew he was poor, unrecognized etc.
The one huge fact that was new to me was how “Marxism” had totally lapsed into obscurity after Marx’s death, until the radical, violent butcher Lenin revived it and used it as his “ideological” platform for the violent Bolshevik Revolution.
It seems we could have dodged the Marxist bullet, had there been no Lenin.
But there was...and catastrophe followed throughout the 20th century.
My only point was, IF the FEE article is accurate, and I read it correctly, Marx and his “ideas” might have died with him, in deserved obscurity, has Lenin not appeared and resurrected them for his own bloody, revolutionary purposes.
Some of Marx's legacy got killed attempting to escape a life not worth living.
Marx';s legacy also includes socialist professors this day indoctrinating our American youth at all kinds of grade levels.
Power to the people! Yeah, right. Something useful idiots are encouraged to believe.
Hey, and don't forget Fake News. That and the current state of the Jackass Party (not to overlook some greedy and/or cowardly helpful RINOs are a part of Marx's legacy too
Hi, Antifa. Go break heads to give us lives not worth living.
Or maybe one should instead say stuff like, "The Farce is strong in this POS."
“The thing that hath been,
Is that which shall be,
And the thing that is done,
Is that which shall be done:
And there is no new thing
under the sun.”
Some old poetry from Ecclesiastes.
The seeds of communism spread quickly to our backyard.
I looked up August Willich and read enough to start wondering where communism came from if not solely from Karl Marx.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_...
So I looked up communism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
Please click on the latter link and scroll down to "Early Communism."
The very top line reads "The term "communism" was first coined and defined in its early definition by French philosopher and writer, Victor d'Hupay in his 1777 book Prpjet de communaute philosophe."
Thank you, BCRinFremont for the clues to lead
me dino to such enlightening knowledge.
It's late and I've things to do tomorrow. I'll read more about this later. Maybe even write a new post about it here in The Gulch and give you due credit. .
I have read enough snippets of the Koran to become Islamophobic.
I have read all of Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals, though. You know, all that stuff we watch the left pull with the assistance of Fake News.
Uh, why all in a sudden am I thinking of a supreme court nominee? And of three others before him?
Not to mention Herman Cain's uppity bid for the presidency during The Anointed One's first run..
I did not know The Evil Hag wrote anything like that, though the Candidate Cackles statement, "My dream is open borders," scared me dino into adding a carbine with two 30 round clips to my gun collection.
I imagined open borders causing streets all over America to turn into total hell.
Today me dino found out exactly why Commie Cackles would want open borders.
Chaos is fertilizer for growing a Communist movement.
Practice for what came later in the Workers Paradise. He mooched off of Friedrich Engels who supported him using his wealthy family's money.
No. Horses! Getting tossed off your horse or kicked or trampled was pretty common. I cannot imagine that Karl would have been a successful horseman. Those of us who have worked with horses have been in the circumstance of seeing someone getting killed or injured, of at least having a hoof fly all to close to our skulls.
It is rather pleasant to imagine an alternate history in which Karl became a Texas rancher, whether successfully ($$$) or unsuccessfully (whomp!).
And his typical liberal behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_...